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we are in the daytime kitchen with
Charles Brown from Frankie Rowland's
steakhouse welcome back always very much
absolutely you're gonna make a grilled
watermelon salad here in just a little
bit yes ma'am but we want to talk about
a special offer you're offering this
weekend only it's the two condign 499
yes yes we ran it all of July it was
very very popular it's it's three
courses for two people for 99 dollars
you know where we wanted to bring it
back just you know kids are getting back
in school just kind of give everybody
just a little reprieve and so earlier
when I walked in the watermelon was
sitting in is this apple cider vinegar
this is brining pretty much we do it for
about 24 hours just to get that vinegar
and the sugars and there's mint and some
salt and pepper in there just to get it
all married together with the mustard
yeah yeah basically once you once you
marinate it we cut it down a little bit
and we're gonna throw it on our
cast-iron skillet a home grill works
well too okay obviously we don't have
that here okay yeah so we're gonna let
it get really really well caramelized
again you know you can kind of do this
to your personal preference you don't
want it super grill like like like I do
you know that's that's okay you know
that's kind of one of the wonderful
things about cooking especially with
salads is it's totally just make it and
this is an appetizer that you're
offering yes it is we just started it
last week I developed it with another
one of my cooks and it's been it's been
really popular yeah a bunch of people
have been ordering it oh yeah absolutely
very cool all right well we'll jump into
this recipe in just a little bit
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all right we were back in the daytime
kitchen with chef Charles Brown from
Frankie run with steak house and look at
this he's slicing up this is not meat
today you're looking at watermelon it
looks a lot like me it does I'm gonna
need to try it that is kind of the play
on it you know it kind of looks like
like sushi
almost right does looks like it looks
like tuna tuna so beautiful its
marinated and it's been grilled you can
tell I mean this has been grown the
whole time that we've been here and so
it takes a while it's a long process
yeah how long would you say that that
usually takes it'll be probably about a
half hour to 45 minutes yeah you know
you're probably about 15 to 20 on each
side so that's where we try to get it
where they're only three sides but and
you want this charred grilled yeah I
like I like it on all sides because it
almost gives like a crust again just
like when you're when you cook a steak
you know you had that crust on the
outside that tends to be one of the
better parts of it so that's kind of the
same the same okay what other
ingredients so we have the chorizo
sausage here our grilled watermelon and
arugula arugula is great especially this
because it's a really peppery lettuce
mm-hmm a little bit better we have fresh
buffalo mozzarella I got some pickled
shallots that we're gonna just to keep
building our our flavor profiles and
then to finish it off our two
ingredients we have white balsamic which
is nice because it tends to be a little
bit sweeter than then your general aged
balsamic mixed with anything in there is
that no no it's just it's a reduction
okay
drizzle that all over I mean that's
amazing like just the simple ingredients
but the way that you pair them all
together well that's where when you guys
go for it I encourage you to try and get
a little bite of everything because it
all really ties in very well together
but this is really nice just a
end-of-summer mm-hmm
this is your intro into fall this is
your perfect transition huge night like
everything we have to get all of it okay
what did you say this once again is does
this have some spice to it the Teresa
sausage it is it does tend to be a
little bit spicy it's really it's you
know when people you want a little bit
of so okay so I need the watermelon a
little bit of sauce we've never eaten
before I know like okay
this is our first time eating I'll let
you what do you think a lot of different
flavors hmm delicious hmm it is a bit of
a concept so you got to be open-minded
but I mean it's nothing that's like
insane no no it's just strange pairing
but you know it really really works
you're getting something different oh
really fresh mm-hmm I love it
that's risos yeah it's really really
good man and that and that reduction
sauce is delicious
okay that's so good Wow all right so
we're gonna offer up the recipe on our
website
daytime blue ridge calm look for the
grilled watermelon salad but really come
out to Frankie's because you're doing
the two can dine $4.99 this weekend only
to get parents a little bit of a break
yeah before we had this we can only
highly encourage reservations Saturday
Thank You charlie yeah thank you yes